Vlad: So what do you think about kanye? RA: he's overrated vlad: really? so what do you think about slim jesus

When you put a real hip hop head in front of Vlad you see just how comical his viewpoints can be 😂

"I don't think you have to learn shit from people who aren't as talented as you." thank god there's RA.

Vlad getting smoked by a walking hip-hop culture encyclopediac

dj vlad has a bad taste in hip hop man

LMAOOO I love how he reacts to Vlad spitting Kanye's line like it was supposed to be impressive

"I don't think Stanley Kubrick etc have to respect Michael Bay just because his movies make millions." Yup.

I like how he disagrees with everything Vlad says lmao

R.A. said to vlad " you like all that wack shit." Vald is killing Hip Hop!

One of Vlad's points is that "there's always been mindless party records" yeah back then it was 10% of the rap game. Now it's 90.

Vlad: "What about whoop there it is?." R.A: "You brought that up last time" Lmao

Fucking great Michael Bay /Film making analogy.Talks so much sense , can't knock his logic .Great interview.

R.A. is the man. I put all the blame on the consumers, the people who buy these wack rappers albums but don't support the good shit. it's their fault for killing the genre.

R.A. is 1000% on point in this interview. He is absolutely right about a lot of things here and he knows hip hip history very well.

“There’s only 50,000 heads that are true to this, the rest are clueless to what real hip hop music is.” - R.A the Rugged Man 😤🥶

R.A. needs his own podcast,he keeps it a buck every time!

rugged man spittin nothing but TRUTH

Vlad that one dude you know that bumps anything that's trendy and popular as soon as it blows up, regardless of what it sounds like. He the type of dude that'll keep saying "cash me ousside how bow dah" in conversations with his friends until the next meme pops up.

damn Vlad gets cooked on almost every interview he has.

Speaking on musical geniuses: The one rapper i have to say is a musical genius when it comes to rap and sound is KRAYZIE BONE. Not talking about punchlines or metaphors, i am talking about SOUND.

RA put up a good argument

I used to be a Hip Hop idealist, I'm no longer such. I just understand that we all have different taste based on a million and one variables...fuck it.

Did Vlad just say Kanye’s Gold digger is better than EPMD’s? He is entitled to his own opinion, but this guy seriously doesn’t know a thing about hip hop!

I love how passionate this guy is. He seems to have a very deep knowledge of Hip-Hop and it's origins.

it looks like Rocky took a walk down 8 mile wtf

R.A. always gives his honest opinion wether you agree or not. Respect to that man!

Didn’t have to wait long for Yachty to disappear

“Oh yeah you like all that wack 💩.” That’s the truth.😆

He's completely correct when he was talking bout yachty's influence vs vanilla ice influence like ppl knew vanilla ice but ppl weren't trynna rap like him niggas coming up deadass listen to yachty and be like yo I could do this shit imma try and "rap" like that

Ennio Morricone IS a genius, RA is earning more respect from me every interview

Right off the bat, RA lists Stanley Kubrick, Federico Fellini, and Ingmar Bergman to make his point. Respect.

This was great. So refreshing to hear someone so talented and knowledgeable speak truth about today's over-hyped artists. And he's right about almost all of it. What a legend.

R.A dropping more truth, truth hurts hence all the dislikes.

This is honestly one of my favorite Vlad guests OAT. All that comes outta his mouth is straight facts

He always reminds me of Sylvester Stallone in loads of ways. Smart guy and good interview.

People always cloud Kanye into the last 5 years but forget to mention making beats and actual hip hop from Jay-Z to Mos Def to Cam'ron. College Dropout is a great album.

Kanye started falling off after My Dark Twisted Fantasy (a masterpiece). Yeezus let me know that he started making trash. (In My Opinion).

R.A.'s songs are too lyrically good for Kanye fans to understand. Simple as that.

Say what you want about RA but the dude has passion for hip-hop and what he says makes sense most of the time.

alchemist better producer than kanye

R.A always comes through with the Faxxxx

Kanye is a good producer but as a rapper he's average at best.

Everytime somebody try to defend current hip hop they always bring up J Cole and Kendrick. Then they stop there. 😂😂😂

I didn't know this man and I'm sorry, because in just 10 minutes he earned all my respect.

Man he was a hundred percent right about Kanye and I'm a old school Kanye fan.

"An intellectual says a simple thing in a complex way but an artists says a complex thing in a simple way." JUST CAUSE YOU CAN RAP EVERY SYLLABLE VERY TECHNICALLY DOES NOT MEAN YOURE A GREAT ARTIST.

2020... where's Lil Yatchys career now lol?

Always come back months later to watch these same RA interviews. Brother speaks the truth

get this guy a show !!!!

This is one of the best interviews ive seen on Vladtv, every single thing R.A said are true.

Why does every Vlad interview now involve him squeezing Lil Yachty into the conversation. He gets these talented MCs that he can ask anything, and chooses to keep talking about how Lil Yachty is relevant.

I agree with RA that the respect for the craft isn't what it used, but it's really debatable whether rappers could have become even more lyrical than they were in the mid to late 90's without totally alienating potential fans in the process. If you listen to Ras Kass, Canibus (1999-2003 especially), or some of the stuff that underground rappers like Sir Menelik and El-P were doing in the late 90's, you will probably reach the conclusion that that whole ultra lyrical thing arguably went as far as it could before it simply became a chore to listen to. Don't get me wrong, I love lyrical rappers, but they just aren't as marketable. Kendrick and Cole in some ways built on what artists in the last decade like Common and Lupe Fiasco started, mixing lyrical, socially conscious rap with pop hooks, and those guys are killing it right now commercially, but it's an incredibly difficult balancing act and most fail at doing it. Not even Kweli pulled it off on a mainstream level (e.g The Beautiful Struggle and Eardrum) and that guy had strong critical support and love from the hip-hop community. And both of those guys are much bigger than Common, Lupe and Kweli ever were. They are huge exceptions to the rule that aren't really indicative of anything in particular. They are talented guys that managed to break through and sell a shit ton of records, but it doesn't happen often. In short, I think the problem with mainstream rap being dumbed down isn't as big of a problem as the new underground rappers lacking innovation. That is a much bigger problem in my view simply because the underground was traditionally were the lifeblood was, where the most original ideas came from etc.

That brief effortless dismantle of Kanye's "genius", was 💯.

His first statement stood out. He doesn't like all of Talib's politics but he loves him as a person because of personal relationship. Relationships stand out more than politics

Oh my god the film director analogy is perfect! Ra killed it, Stanley Kubrick doesn’t need to respect Michael Bay

They keep using Kendrick and j Cole to say see look there's some lyrical rappers gtfoh, it's only 2 or 3 vs 20 or 30 non skilled rappers, 90s had more balance.

"Jesus walks was written by rhymefest"

R.A. is spittin' the truth tho. And "Spaceship" was always my fav Kanye song.

I dont get why i never hear anyone give m.c. breed any credit. Man was a legend

This guy is so New York hahahahah, his twang coming through strong!

"Jesus Walks was written by Rhymefest" Lmao, that's kinda sad

R.A is a legend, and I honestly completely agree

"Poke little bitchy holes in it" LOL 😂 I'm dead

Is Vlad a 12 year old girl? I only ask cos he has the musical taste of a random 12 year old girl I'd hate to hear him actually DJ, cos it must be like being at a bat mitzvah

I never heard of this dude....but damn it like'em!👍

I definitely agree with R.A. 💯

Agree him on that point, old School rappers sowed seeds that actual mumblers harvest. How could you learn what you already know ? facts

LOL R.A.'s reaction to Vlad rapping that Kanye bar hahaha. That shit killed me man

On another topic... Beats by the pound was one of the best producers in the 90s

It’s kool af when vlad has a guest that really loves hip hop and understand that past legends as well as the present

Rugged spoke straight truth on this one

10:03 OHH shit!! My dude Passionate MC is in the building!? Should've interviewed him next Vlad. #ASSASSINS

"put liddle pin holes in it. rahh rahh rahhhh. hip hop , hip hop." lmfaoo. love him.

hehehe. No one can take a stab at RA The Rugged Man. He is honest and truthful to the core. Stay jealous peoples.

Dilla, Q Tip, Madlib, 9th Wonder, Young Guru, Quincy Jones, Easy Mo Bee, he should’ve kept going.

I have no respect for Vlad

if ye is overrated so is drake

Vlad really thought that Kanye line was hard 😂😂😂 foh Vladimir

Dj Vlad is not as hip hop savvy as he thinks he is. He uses popular "hip-hop" to his advantage. Difference is. R.a. knows hip hop and is hip hop.

Finally someone else that thinks Kanye is overrated. This dude speaks the truth about the new hip hop culture too.

Kayne West overrated????Compared to DJ Quik, 9th Wonder, the late Jay Dilla, Madlib, Apollo Brown, Pete Rick, Q-Tip, Organized Noize, The Medicine Men(Beats By the Pound), RZA, The Beatminerz, DJ Premier, Khrysis, Cold 187um(Big Hutch), Daz Dillager, Warren G, Havoc, Diamond D, Large Processor, the late DJ Crazy Toones, DJ U-Neek, DJ Pooh, Erick Sermon, Neptunes, Jermaine Dupri, Swizz Beats, David Bannerr, Big K.R.I.T, Bangladesh, DJ Paul, Mannie Fresh and Timberland and a few more. Kanye West is good as a producer. Just not on their level. Same goes for P-Diddy and DJ Khalad.

Listened to Young Dolph for the first time yesterday also my last time. Hilarious how untalented "rappers" make it today.

I got a homeboy that loves this decade's Kanye but doesn't know anything before 08. I put on something old and he's surprised

"thats what you said last time!"

Yes, Kanye is highly overrated. So is Lil Wayne.

"But they didn't have ice cube, so he bought vanilla ice"

big up R.A for naming Ennio Morricone....

He's right when I was younger I was all over underground rap with lyrics you just don't hear anywhere else and now kids just go for the hype xxx was one of the only younger artists that had lyrics and would of been great to see the progression

"I know, you like all that wack shit!" LMFAO!!!

R.A. is always dropping knowledge in a respectful way!!

thank you ra bout time somebody said it shots out

R.A. is a great rapper and he knows it. R.A. along with a ton of other legit rappers are what hip hop is/was/is supposed to be at its core. It’s ok to not like/respect other “artists” that aren’t true hip hop. Nothing wrong with it.

Yachty Giving The Rap Game Indian Arm Burns, That Nigga Ain't Doing Nothing Serious

I've always said Kanye was WAAAAYY Overrated

R.A. CARRIES THE CULTURE! ALL MY HEROES ARE DEAD.. STRAIGHT UP MA FUCKIN CLASSIC!

I wonder what RA The Rugged Man thinks about The End Of Evangelion???

Idk YE did john legend album common's be you don't know my name his shit too diverse to say overrated his catalogue is crazy

One of my favorite guys on the planet man. He is just very intelligent guy. More of RA everywhere please.

While you dont have to respect the artist, you as an artist have to acknowledge their movement if it is gaining significant traction.

i like all RA videos period